Linsner's "Dawn", The Goddess
Sep. 14th, 2006 08:52 amIf you've never read the comic series "Dawn" by Joseph Michael Linsner, I implore you to go do so. Especially if you are a man, or a woman recovering from an eating disorder, or a woman, or, um... anyone. Seriously.
http://www.linsner.com/gallery.asp
http://www.linsner.com/shop.asp?c=2
(If you can't see the images, that's okay, just click on them)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Lh1.jpg
http://www.linsner.com/images/covers/doorwayLOWRES.jpg
http://www.linsner.com/images/covers/oceangoddessLOWRES.jpg
http://www.adherents.com/lit/comics/img/Dawn.jpg
http://www.linsner.com/images/covers/key2yourdreamLOWRES.jpg
Dawn is a female figure who actually has a female figure. She's not thin and waifish. She's voluptuous, she's full, she's curvaceous... and she's a goddess. Humans worship her. She's a deity of fertility, life, rebirth, and death. Her lover is Death.
Oh, and she's curvy.
She's been my subconscious role model since the late 1990's when I first picked up Linsner's comic books. He is one of the few comic book artists that actually draws women like women, instead of stick figures with balloons on their chests. He draws Dawn with an unbelievably yet believaby full figure with realistic muscle tone. Even her breasts look heavy, not weightless and impossible. Her waist is proportionate. And those hips, my gods, those hips.
Ahem.
Anyway.
The comic mixes paganism with Christianity in various ways. We have incarnations of pagan gods, but we also have incarnations of the Christian God and Devil.
http://www.adherents.com/lit/comics/Dawn.html
I think it's brilliant, and I wish I had bought all the books when I'd first gone to that comic shop near my college. I shall just have to save money so I can order from Amazon.
http://www.linsner.com/gallery.asp
http://www.linsner.com/shop.asp?c=2
(If you can't see the images, that's okay, just click on them)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Lh1.jpg
http://www.linsner.com/images/covers/doorwayLOWRES.jpg
http://www.linsner.com/images/covers/oceangoddessLOWRES.jpg
http://www.adherents.com/lit/comics/img/Dawn.jpg
http://www.linsner.com/images/covers/key2yourdreamLOWRES.jpg
Dawn is a female figure who actually has a female figure. She's not thin and waifish. She's voluptuous, she's full, she's curvaceous... and she's a goddess. Humans worship her. She's a deity of fertility, life, rebirth, and death. Her lover is Death.
Oh, and she's curvy.
She's been my subconscious role model since the late 1990's when I first picked up Linsner's comic books. He is one of the few comic book artists that actually draws women like women, instead of stick figures with balloons on their chests. He draws Dawn with an unbelievably yet believaby full figure with realistic muscle tone. Even her breasts look heavy, not weightless and impossible. Her waist is proportionate. And those hips, my gods, those hips.
Ahem.
Anyway.
The comic mixes paganism with Christianity in various ways. We have incarnations of pagan gods, but we also have incarnations of the Christian God and Devil.
http://www.adherents.com/lit/comics/Dawn.html
I think it's brilliant, and I wish I had bought all the books when I'd first gone to that comic shop near my college. I shall just have to save money so I can order from Amazon.